Vaccines via Poste, what do the regions combine?
Only 4 regions have decided at the time to use the booking platform for anti Covid-19 vaccines developed by Poste Italiane, also engaged on the logistical front. Facts, names and numbers.
While the SDA (Poste) couriers, equipped with refrigerated cells, send Moderna's anti Covid vaccines throughout Italy, simulating the classic shipments of packages and letters, a platform developed by the group led by the CEO, Matteo Del Fante , will allow citizens to reserve their own vaccine.
It's easy to use and free, but only four regions will adopt them. The others? They will try to manage the booking business within their own borders. And Lazio, among these, has already flopped. Let's go step by step.
DELIVERIES THROUGH SDA
Let's start with deliveries. Poste Italiane, through its SDA express courier, is engaged in the distribution of a second tranche of 66,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine.
The delivery, logistically speaking, is not simple: it must be transported at a temperature of -20 degrees. Specific containers are used for the transport of the drug, isothermal, with cooling masses transported on vans with refrigerated cells.
On the software side, however, or vaccines can be managed like the delivery of any package.
PLATFORM POSTS FOR BOOKINGS
Not just delivery, however. Poste was commissioned by the extraordinary Commissioner for the emergency, Domenico Arcuri, to develop and activate an IT platform for tracking and administering vaccines for Covid-19, ensuring the Regions that use it an online booking system, or through Postamat. , postman, and call center, reads a press release from Poste.
LAYS ON AZURE AND IT'S FREE
The platform relies on Microsoft's cloud, Azure, and is free, underlined Repubblica .
ONLY ABRUZZO, MARCHE, CALABRIA AND SICILY WILL USE IT
But at the moment only 4 Italian regions have decided to use the Poste platform: Abruzzo, Marche, Calabria and Sicily.
WHAT WILL THE OTHER REGIONS DO?
What will the other regions do? They will try to do it themselves. "Random. We do. We have our own developers. Our IT companies to work, "summed Republic: the Roman newspaper reveals that even Arcuri has personally spent with governors to convince them to use the national platform.
THE FLOP OF THE LAZIO REGION
And he would also do so with Nicola Zingaretti, governor of the Lazio region. Region that on February 1, from midnight, started the booking of the vaccine for the over 80s. But Vaccine Day was a flop (crashed site) , with children and grandchildren, says Corriere della Sera , who were unlikely to be able to connect the two sites in the Region set up for the start of the anti Covid operation, www. salutelazio.it and https://prenotavaccino-covid.regione.lazio.it . Due to the intense traffic, the two sites went haywire and the start was moved from midnight on February 1st to noon. And even at that time, however, there were difficulties. At the end of the day, 25,000 vaccinations were recorded (65% via the web and 35% via the call center). We will start with vaccinations on February 8th.
CAMPANIA: BOOKINGS ALREADY IN PROGRESS
Campania, which has set the start of anti Covid vaccinations for the elderly population between 10 and 15 February, inaugurated reservations on 30 January, without particular problems.
HOW LIGURIA MOVES
Liguria, on the other hand, has chosen the classic way. The president of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, has decided to send a letter inviting those over 80 to contact the single booking center or a call center that is being prepared.
THE OTHER REGIONS
In Puglia, where the administration will be at home, we start on February 8, as in Umbria and Valle d'Aosta. Veneto, Tuscany and Friuli-Venezia Giulia will follow (between 9 and 15 February). In Emilia-Romagna it will be possible to book around mid-February.
In Lombardy we will have to wait until March 25-26. A possible date is still awaited in Piedmont and Calabria.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/vaccini-via-poste-che-cosa-combinano-le-regioni/ on Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:20:05 +0000.